21 feared dead in Vietnam boat accidents

Twenty one people, 19 of them children, may have died in central Vietnam in two boat accidents, officials and state media said on Sunday. A boat went down early on Saturday while ferrying children to their morning class in Nghe An province, and 19 children aboard might have drowned, a district policeman said.
Earlier, another policeman put the total of dead and missing were 20. "The water current was strong and we fear all of the missing children may have died," he said by telephone from Con Cuong district, more than 400 km (250 miles) south of Hanoi.